Matthew Hicks

The war of words between Lindows.com Inc. and Microsoft Corp. this week escalated as the two companies disputed Lindows.coms efforts to process consumers claims in a $1.1 billion California class-action lawsuit settlement. Lindows.com, in a letter released on Tuesday, vowed to fight any legal action taken by Microsoft to force the company to take down […]

To Michael Doyle, the recent victory for his company, Eolas Technologies Inc., against Microsoft Corp. in a Web browser patent-infringement lawsuit shouldnt be leading to a re-examination of anything more than Microsoft itself. Doyle, who founded the Chicago company, disagrees with the World Wide Web Consortiums move on Tuesday to create an advisory group to […]

The ramifications of the recent Web browser patent verdict against Microsoft Corp. could strike at the heart of the Webs common language—HTML. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is investigating whether the claims in the patent infringement lawsuit brought by Eolas Technologies Inc. and the University of California could require changes to both the current […]

Opera Software ASA, one of the only commercial Web browser competitors to Microsoft Corp., rolled out its latest browser for Windows on Tuesday. With Opera 7.20 for Windows, Opera is promising improved performance and support for additional languages. The release follows by almost a month a beta of the browser. Performance improvements in the latest […]

The Internet today is weaker than it was a week ago, according to an Internet advisory group. The culprit is SiteFinder, VeriSign Inc.s move to redirect mistyped and nonexistent domain names, said representatives of an Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) advisory committee on Monday. The group said VeriSigns service was undermining the […]

A startup company launching this week wants to change the way enterprises and Web users view online video. By sending files in the background instead of streaming in real time, Maven Networks said its customers can provide a higher-quality experience for rich video content. Maven Networks Inc. of Cambridge, Mass., released its Maven Media System, […]

VeriSign Inc. will not back down on its SiteFinder redirect service launched last week despite a call from the overseer of Internet domain system for the company to voluntarily suspend the service. Spokesman Tom Galvin told eWeek.com on Monday that VeriSign has no plans to suspend the service and is happy with its success, having […]

Another major enterprise IT vendor has further embraced the move toward using radio frequency identification (RFID) tags in manufacturing and retailing. Sun Microsystems Inc. this week announced that it has formed a business unit dedicated to helping customers and partners to develop software and hardware solutions for the use of RFID. At least one piece […]

In an effort to combat spam, Yahoo Inc. is requiring users of certain older versions of its Yahoo Messenger instant messaging client to upgrade by Sept. 24 or lose access to its popular IM network. But the move could have a side effect that company officials say was not the intent of the move: It […]

Sun Microsystems Inc. is cutting about 3 percent of the jobs at the company in a move to help improve profits. Sun currently has 36,000 employees, so the cutbacks will affect about 1,080 positions. The move comes two days after Chairman and CEO Scott McNealy told reporters during the Sun Network 2003 Conference and Pavilion […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Sun Microsystems Inc. is readying a series of new features for its Solaris operating system, some of which will become available to participants in its early-access program in the next three to four months, said Mark Tolliver, executive vice president of marketing and strategy. Speaking on Wednesday at the SunNetwork 2003 Conference and Pavilion […]

Sun Microsystems Inc. is standardizing its software products on an open-source database to store and manage non-relational data. Sleepycat Software Inc. will announce on Wednesday that Sun, of Palo Alto, Calif., has chosen Sleepycats Berkeley DB database as the embedded database within its software line. The database is incorporated in key components of the Sun […]